Stray by Stacey Goldblatt7/1/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Sadly for Natalie, her mother’s trust issues from her husband’s desertion translate into her daughter not enjoying the freedom that many of her friends enjoy. Natalie’s father, a famous dog behaviorist with an impulse control problem of his own, left his family for one of his clients. Natalie lives with her mother, a veterinarian, and her grandmother, a holocaust survivor who married one of her Yankee liberators. She feels “socially stunted” by her mother’s constant monitoring. ![]() Stray by Stacey Goldblatt tells the story of Natalie Kaplan, a sixteen-year-old girl who has decided that to go beyond the smothering boundaries set by her mother and live the life of a “normal” teenager. Years ago Natalie had devised a strategy where she allows herself two lies per season so that she can get around her mother’s strictness-and this summer she goes way over her quota." ![]()
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